Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers [Paperback] chapter Summaries:
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Willingham’s happy idea of bringing the Fables–that is, the characters of Europe’s best-known fairy tales–to contemporary New York rolls merrily, dangerously along in two stories. The former, “The Last Castle,” guest-drawn by P. Craig Russell and Craig Hamilton, flashes back to the Fables’ last stand in their home world; echoing the Disney and John Wayne Alamo flicks and Peter Jackson’s Two Towers, it winningly introduces the long title story, in which Boy Blue reencounters the love he loses in “The Last Castle”–the grown-up Red Riding Hood. But is this the same Red? Reason for doubt precedes her in goblin sightings near a door between this and the Fables’ worlds–and goblins can only be harbingers of impending attack by the Adversary, who drove the Fables into exile. Meanwhile, what’s with these toughies in black suits who look like Pinocchio? Willingham never sacrifices a joke for the sake of a thrill, or vice versa, and artist Mark Buckingham continues matching Willingham joke for thrill, and vice versa. Ray Olson
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Product Description
Bill Willingham’s runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth trade paperback, collecting issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and featuring the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. Also included is the Prestige Format Special Fables: The Last Castle. When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between this world and the lost Fable Homelands, she’s welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone – everyone except her old nemesis, Bigby Wolf, who smells spying and subversion more than survival. But will he be able to prove his case before disaster strikes? And how will it all affect Prince Charming’s upstart campaign to become the new mayor of Fabletown?
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